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Copenhagen Climate Change Conference

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

503 c42-55 

Session

2009-10

Department

Department of Energy and Climate Change

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP2010-0016
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Deposited papers
House of Lords
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Philip Hollobone | 503 c53-4 (Link to this contribution) Despite the Secretary of State's best efforts, the failure of Copenhagen surely increases the risk t...

Ed Miliband | 503 c53 (Link to this contribution) Those are two important questions. I am glad that my hon. Friend asked the first one; I should have ...

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Adrian Bailey | 503 c54 (Link to this contribution) Although I recognise that it may have been overly ambitious ever to expect a legally binding agreeme...

Ed Miliband | 503 c54 (Link to this contribution) It would be defeatist to say, "Let's give up on this." I am not saying that the hon. Gentleman is su...

Graham Stuart | 503 c53 (Link to this contribution) No one set out for Copenhagen looking for an accord between 40-odd countries, so it is more than dis...

Ed Miliband | 503 c52 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend asks the most difficult question of all about how we proceed. It is important to rest...

Andy Reed | 503 c53 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend share my concern that without Copenhagen there is a danger of a lack of fo...

Ed Miliband | 503 c53 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and I have talked about Copenhagen in the past. In a way I think he undersells th...

Michael Clapham | 503 c52 (Link to this contribution) Like my right hon. Friend, I believe that the challenge that faces mankind is climate change, and I ...

Ed Miliband | 503 c52 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an interesting question. My immediate response is no, in the following sen...

Ed Miliband | 503 c55 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not think that I should give the impression that it was a problem of process. At a meeting ...

Andrew Pelling | 503 c55 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has credited the House with a forensic analysis of the difficulties that led ...

Ed Miliband | 503 c54-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend speaks very eloquently about his experiences, and I knew that he had taken that trip....

Jim Sheridan | 503 c54 (Link to this contribution) As part of a cross-party delegation I recently visited some of those islands in the Pacific and saw ...

Ed Miliband | 503 c54 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that we need to be as ambitious as we can be. That is why we are bringin...

Bob Spink | 503 c54 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Government on their efforts so far and, in particular, on their commitment to car...

Ed Miliband | 503 c54 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. There is the protection that we need to give to higher carbon manufacturers...

Greg Clark | 503 c44-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for giving me advance sight of his statement, and for the briefing th...

Ed Miliband | 503 c42-4 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement about December's Copenhagen climate c...

Ed Miliband | 503 c45-6 (Link to this contribution) I slightly regret the tone of the hon. Gentleman's remarks. I welcomed the cross-party support for t...

Lord Prescott | 503 c46-7 (Link to this contribution) I attended the Copenhagen conference in my capacity as the Council of Europe's rapporteur on climate...

Simon Hughes | 503 c47-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement, and commend his efforts and those of the Prime Min...

Ed Miliband | 503 c48-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman asks serious questions that deserve serious answers. Let me go through them. On h...

Colin Challen | 503 c49 (Link to this contribution) I, too, was in Copenhagen, and it seemed to me that one issue behind the problems that emerged from ...

Ed Miliband | 503 c49 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend speaks with great authority on these issues. He is completely right to say that we ha...

Lord Deben | 503 c49-50 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State was right to say that the meeting was disappointing, and that is fundamentall...

Barry Gardiner | 503 c50 (Link to this contribution) I commend my right hon. Friend for the very critical role that he played in the wee small hours, whe...

Ed Miliband | 503 c50 (Link to this contribution) Let me take this opportunity to say that I know that the right hon. Gentleman has announced that he ...

Ed Miliband | 503 c50 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, and thank him for his remarks about the role that I played in this diff...

Harry Cohen | 503 c51 (Link to this contribution) Was the delegate from Sudan right when comparing the failure at Copenhagen to a holocaust? Will not ...

Ed Miliband | 503 c51 (Link to this contribution) The remarks of the Sudanese delegate were reprehensible, as I said at the time. As I said in an earl...

Lord Redwood | 503 c50 (Link to this contribution) Why are we in the northern hemisphere having such a very cold winter this year? Which climate model ...

Ed Miliband | 503 c50 (Link to this contribution) I can hardly believe that question, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The weather fluctuates, as anyone knows, and...

Jeff Ennis | 503 c51-2 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware that we are trying to establish what will probably be the largest...

Ed Miliband | 503 c52 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that question. It is very important that we make progress on carbon captu...

Tony Baldry | 503 c51 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Secretary of State a question as a vice-chairman of the all-party group on China? It w...

Ed Miliband | 503 c51 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman speaks with authority on these issues. China has moved some distance in the past ...

Elfyn Llwyd | 503 c52 (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased that the Secretary-General of the UN recognised that there are procedural problems...

Ed Miliband | 503 c47 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend the former Deputy Prime Minister on the role that he played at C...

Subjects

Climate change Developing countries International assistance International cooperation Pollution control Conferences Greenhouse gas emissions

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